05-11-2026SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE

Design enters its frenemies era

Anthropic’s Claude Design rocked the design world. I’ve got intel on how Adobe, Canva, and Figma found out; what they’re doing next; and why the future of design software is more big-box store than boutique.

It was the shock that the design world didn’t see coming, but should have. In mid-April, Anthropic, the maker of Claude, launched a stand-alone design tool called Claude Design.

No matter that Google had already tried the same thing with its platform Stitch, and there were also plenty of perfectly good vibe coding tools on the market. The possibility that Anthropic—the same AI company........

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